On Christmas Eve, outdoorsman Bear Grylls took to his made a claim.
Leftists distort the Biblical story of Christ's birth to support their own ends, often exploiting this story by saying that Christ's earthly parents, Joseph and Mary, were homeless or refugees. The time has come again. , or immigration. And some, like Grylls, even falsely claim that the couple were “Palestinian.” But in reality, none of them were.
Grylls launched into a false narrative about the birth of Christ, saying the world was celebrating the “birth of a Middle Eastern refugee” who “changed the course of the world forever.”
“This is just a short excerpt from near the beginning of the adventure. Mariam, a young, poor, and undoubtedly frightened Palestinian girl, gives birth to the baby that had been prophesied centuries ago in a dilapidated animal pen. “That's when I did it,” he continued.
“But she was not alone, and she never would be, for this was the moment when Almighty God entered directly into our fallen world,” he wrote, ” For many of us, it is arguably the greatest story ever told.”
Of course, Mary was never a “refugee.” And she wasn't a “Palestinian girl” either.
In response to his false claims, X issued a community redressal recommendation against Grylls.
But Grylls' false depiction of the birth of Christ is the same lie that has been spread by the left for decades.
This claim that Joseph and Mary were “immigrants” is a lie that has long been used to promote modern immigration amnesty policies. The left's argument is as follows. If even Jesus Christ's parents were immigrants, how can Christians in America today oppose open borders and amnesty?
But the truth is that this famous Biblical couple were not “immigrants.” Joseph and Mary were in Bethlehem to register with the Internal Revenue Service for Roman ruler Caesar Augustus' version. They were on their way to Bethlehem to register for the government census to have their taxes assessed.
Important excerpts are: Luke, chapter 2in verses 1 to 7 we read:
At that time, Caesar Augustus issued a decree to conduct a census of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) Then everyone went to their town to register.
So Joseph, who belonged to the lineage of David, went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Bethlehem, the town of David, in Judea. He went there to take vows of marriage and register with Mary, who is pregnant with a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. Since they had no guest room available, she wrapped him in cloths and laid him in a manger. (Bible, New International Version)
Neither Joseph nor Mary came to Bethlehem to “migrate” to the city. They were there to be identified and registered by the government for tax purposes. But even if Joseph and Mary intended to immigrate to Bethlehem in the Christmas story, they would still not be “immigrants” because their hometown of Nazareth and the town of Bethlehem in the Christmas story are in the same country. Probably. You can only become an “immigrant” when you leave one country and enter another.
Furthermore, neither Joseph nor Mary were “Palestinian.” Both were Jews from Judea who lived under the rule of the Roman Empire.
Liberals distort the Christmas story in other ways as well. Joseph and Mary are often described as “homeless” and “poor.” In truth, they were neither. They had a house in Nazareth, where Joseph worked as a carpenter and lived a middle-class life at the time.
All attempts by the left to retell the story of Christ's birth are just cynical attempts to use Jesus for their own political purposes. Joseph and Mary were not homeless. They weren't trying to move to Bethlehem, they weren't refugees seeking respite from anything, they weren't “Palestinians.”
Regardless of the facts, Mr. Grylls still seems proud of his misrepresentation of the birth of Christ, and his post still lives on.
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